Car-roof.



. BIBLE &J. A. COSTELLO.

GAR ROOF.

APPLIOATIO TILED APR. 29, 1012.

Patented EW. 19?, 1919.

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STATS ra FTCE.

WILLIAM S. BIBLE AND JOSEPH A. COSTELLO, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGN'ORS TO OLEVELAND OAR SPECIALTY COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GAR-ROOF.

To all whom t'may concern Be it known that We, WILLIAM S. BIBLE and JOSEPH A. COSTELLO, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Roofs; and 4 we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others" skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

()ur invention relates to improvements in car-roofs, and pertains more especially to animproved car-roof-construction for a railway-car.

The primary object-of this invention is not only to employ a carline or other supporting member in supporting two metal roofing-sections and to have said roofingsections extend from over said carline or supporting member laterally of said mem her in opposite directions and connected to gether by a cap, but to have adjacent portions of said roofing-sections so contoured in cross-section and relatively arranged as to prevent buckling or distortion of said root ing-sections by the racking and weaving of the car.

With this object'in View, and to the end of attaining other advantages hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain featuresof construction, and combinations and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which is a view partly in section and partly in perspective of a portion of a car-roof em bodying our invention.

Referring to said drawing, A indicates a steel trough forming a carlin'e of our improved car-roof. The ap lication of carlines in the construction 0 car-roofs is too well known in the art to require illustration and description in this specification. The trough A is adapted to extend between and be connected to the side plates (not shown) of a car-roof. Said trough is provided at its top and externall with two laterally and outwardly projecting flanges a and a which are arranged at opposite sides respectively and extend longitudinally of the trough.

Two metal roofing-sections B and B rest on opposite flanges a and a respectively.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 39,

Patented Nov. 19, 1912. 1912. Serial no. 693,786.

Said roofing-sections extend from over the roofingsections forms a trough 4 which is arranged within and extends longitudinally of the carline-trough A. Said troughs 4 of said roofing-sections are spaced apart and from the sides of said carlinedrough, and adjacent walls or portions of said troughs of said roofing-sections are extended upwardly and toward each other and formupwardly projecting side members 6 of said roofing-sections, and said side members of said roofing-sections have their lower portions spaced apart and have their upper portions abutting against each other, as at 5, and terminating in laterally and outwardly projecting resilient arched flanges 6. Said side members I) of said roofing-sections have their lower portions inclined upwardly and toward each other. It will be observed that said side members I) of said roofing-sections, being formed by adjacent walls or portions of the troughs lot said roofing-sections and by the upward extension of said walls or portions -of said troughs, depend into the carline-trough A so as to insurethe dripping into said carline-trough of any water having access to and running adown the opposing surfaces of said side members of said roofing-sections. It will be observed also that the downward divergence of said side members I) of said roofing-sections from their abuttingportionsand the ogee-curved members 3 of said roofing-sections not only accommodate expansion and contraction of said roofing-sections but prevent buckling or distortion of said roofingse'ctions duringthe racking and weaving of a railway car provided with our improved roof. A metal cap 3 covers said side members I) of said roofing sections "and incloses the flanges 6 and presses against the outed sides of the outer portions of said flanges and holds said side members together, and said cap is provided with laterally and outwardly projecting flanges T which rest on the bodies of said roofing-sections over the flanges of the can line trough A. i

By our improved construction any water driven or forced into the-cap C from next below the flanges of said cap and received by the troughs 4c of the roofing-sections can be conducted oil by said troughs, and any water which may perchance be driven or forced to and over the flanges 6 of the aforesaid side members 6 of said roofing-sections and thence pass downwardly between the abutting upper portions of said side members is-caused to drip into the carline-trough A. Not unimportant, also, is such an arrangement, as shown of the outer downwardly projecting portion of the arched flange 6 of each roofing-section that theinner side of saidportion of said flangd is over the ogee-curved portion or member 3 of saidrooiingsection, and consequently over. the trough ot the said roofing-section, so that any water dripping from said side of said portion of said flange shall be're-oived and conducted oft by said trough.

W hat we claim is 1. lhe combination, with a carline comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-sections extending from over said carlinetrough laterally of the carline-trough in opposite directions, each of said IO0fiI1g-S6C tions having 'a side member which extends into and longitudinally of said carlinetrough, and projects upwardly from within said carline-trough said side members of said roofing-sections having their lower portions'spaced apart, and a cap covering said side members. v

:2. In a car-roof, two adjacent metal roofingsections provided each with an upwardly projecting side member, said side members said roofing-sections having their lower portions spaced apart and their upper portions terminating in laterally and outwardly projecting arched flanges, each roofing-section having an ogee-curved portion terminating in the lower portion of the aforesaid side member of said roofingsectiou, and a cap inclosing said flanges, the downwardly projecting outer portion of the arched flange ofeach roofing-section having its inner side arranged over the ogee-curved portion of said roofing-section. 1

3. The combination, with a carline comprising a, trough, of two metal roofing-sections extending from over the carline-trough laterally of the carline-trough in opposite directiors, each of said roofing-sections having a though-forming member extending longitudinally f the carline-trough between the-sides of carline-trough, said troughforming members of said roofing-sections being spaced apart centrally between the sides oi the carline-trough and there ex ering said side members.

weaves tended upwardly and forming upwardly projecting side members of said roofingsecticns, and a cap covering said side members.

i. The combination,-with a carline comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-secticns' extending from over the carline-trough laterally of the carline-trough in opposite direct-ions, each of said roofing-sectionshavingr a trouglnforming member arranged within and extending longitudinally of the carline-trough between the sides of the carline-trough, adjacent portions of the trough forming members of the roofing-sections being extended upwardly and forming upwardly projecting side members of said roofing-sections, and a cap covering said side members of'said roofing-sections.

5. The combination, with a trough, of two metal roofing-sections extending from over said trough laterally of the trough in opposite directions, each of said roofing-sections having a trough-forming member arranged within and extending longitudinally of the aforesaid trough between the sides of said trough, said trough-forming members of said roofing-sections being spaced apart and from the sides of said trough, and adjacent portions of-said trough-forming members being extended-upwardly and forming upwardly projecting side members of said roofing-sections, and a cap covering said side members of said roofing-sections.

6. The combination, with a carline comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-sec.- tions extending from over the carline-trough laterally of the carline-trough in opposite directions, each of said roofing-sections having an ogee-curved member extending longitudinally of the carline-trough said 'ogeecurved members of said roofing-sections being spaced apart centrally between the sides of the carline-trough and there extended upwardly and formingupwardly projecting side members of said roofing-sections, and a cap covering said side members.

7. The combination, with a carline comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-sections extending from overthe CiL1lll'!t 'Ol1 ll laterally of the ca-rline-trough in opposite directions, each of said roofing-sections having an ogee-curved member depending into and extending longitudinally of the carlinetrough, adjacent portions of said ogeecurved members being extended upwardly and forming upwardly projecting side members 01 said roofing-sections. and a cap covapart from the sides of the said trough, and adjal cent portions of said ogec-curved members I being extended upwardly and forming np- 'ardly projecting side members of said roofing-sections, and a cap covering said side members of said rooting-sectious. i 9. The combination, with a (cal-line comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-secs l tions extending from over the earline-trough laterally ofthe carlinetrough in opposite} directions, each of said roofing-sections having a trough-forming member extending longitudinally of the carlinetrough between the sides of the earlinc-trough, said troughforming members having their adjacent sides extended upwardly, and a cap cover- 1 ing said t rougltforining IDOU'IbBLS. I 10. The combination, with a carline coml prising a trough, of two metal roofing-sec- I tions extending from over the carline-trough laterally ot' the carline-trough in opposite directions, each of said roofing-sections having a trough-forming member extending longitudinally of the carline-trough, said: trtmgh-forming members being extended at their adjacent sides into contact with each other above'the carline-trough, and a capi covering said trough-forming members. I 11. The combination, with a carline com- I prising a trough, of two metal r00fing-sec tions extending from over the earline-trough laterally ot' the carline-trough in opposite directions, each of said rooting-sections having an ogee-curved member extending longitudinally of the carline-trough, said. ogeecurved members being extended into contact with each other, and a cap covering said ogeecurved members.

12; The combination, with a earline comprising a trough, of two metal roofing-see tions extending from over the carline-trough laterally of the carline-trough in opposite directions, each of said roofing-sections hav ing an ogee-curved member extending longitudinally of the carline-t-rough, adjacent portions of said ogee-curved members being extended upwardly and forming upwardly projecting members which abut laterally against each other over the carline-trough, and a cap covering said upwardly projecting members.

Signed by 11: 24' Qleveland, Ohio, this 23d day of April, 1912.

' NILLTAM S. BHHiE.

JQSEPH A. COSTELLO. Witnesses:

B. C. BROWN, N. L. MUDONNELL. 

